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BCF Support Article

Why is a child placed in foster care?

Foster Care

Updated:

3/10/2003

Foster care, adoption, legal guardianship, or emergency shelter care may be needed for a child for many reasons. Children are removed from their own homes by court action or are voluntarily placed in foster care by their parents. The state is then responsible for care of these children and becomes their legal guardian.

A child may need to be placed in foster care, in part because of:

physical and/or sexual abuse, neglect of the child’s basic needs,

behavioral problems that the child has developed,

drug/alcohol abuse by the birth parents,

extensive medical needs of the child,

homelessness,

death of birth parents,

inability of parents to provide proper child care, or

serious problems which place the child at-risk.

BCF Support Article

Why is a child placed in foster care?

Category:

Foster Care

Updated:

3/10/2003